The declining significance of race: Adrian Fenty and the smooth electoral transition

Whose Black Politics?: Cases in Post-Racial Black Leadership

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 195-213

  Yon, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203893722     Document Type: Chapter

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